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The Merseyside Joint Contruction Committee has called for strike action throughout the Liverpool area on May Day. The stoppage, which is expected to be 100% solid, is in protest against unemployment in the building industry The crucial question is the policy on which the action is fought. It is not enough simply to protest against unemployment A programme must be advanced on which workers can fight. This must be based on the demand for a sliding scale of hours work sharing on full pay. To achieve this the books of the building employers must be opened and work snaring administered by In this way the struggle for the nationalisation of the building industry under the management of elected committees of workers can be developed. From such a nationalised industry workers could then advance the demand for public works to ensure stability to the industry and full employment for building workers.

We urge building workers in the Merseyside area to fight for UCATT and T&GWU branches to advance this programme on May Day and to demand that the trade union leaders extend this fight against unemployment throughout the industry. UNG RAL HICHERE GRANT Students demonsirate for in rensen WERE MUS SALING GRENT.S HIGHERE THE GRANT MINERS. AU Chancellor.

The idea of therefore is to hand over students to the bourgeois courts of law to administer justice. An overwhelming vote of censure was passed against Stewart for this position, and he was forced to retract his statement - but he remains on the -Executive, and every Executive member is equally unequipped to defend or lead students in struggle. Students are abandoned to face demorilisation isolation or even victimisation for carrying out NUS policy, and the now a burning issue in the arca.

This strike, together with the from Islington Square to the Pier in the struggle against unemployment.

committees of building workers. Labour government, are taking hard line with students, alming further to reduce their living standards and divert onto the backs of students, college workers and lecturers the whole burden of the increased costs of higher education. They know this can only be done in confrontation with the trade unions concerned and in head on struggle with the NUS.

Clearly a leadership is needed in the NUS which will start from this reality, and which will therefore give priority to strengthening and developing the scope of students' struggles - particularly rent strikes and occupations.

Yet more militancy in itself is not the answer. The support of the organised Labour movement must be fought for in a struggle to demand Prentice he removed. and that the Labour government end all spending cuts and establish a sliding scale of students grants linked to the rising cost of living, as an integral part of the defence of the free education system won in struggle by the working class. march which starts at 11.00 Head, gives an important lead

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